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Careers in Physics
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APS Careers in Physics includes information on and links to career programs and activities organized by the APS such as: the online career center database; Job Fairs, career workshops and sessions at the meetings; and career reports. It also includes other relevant information and resources designed to help people learn about physics careers, and better navigate their careers.


Speaker Travel Grants

New!APS now has a Career Development Speaker Travel Grant Program to provide assistance to physics departments that are trying to increase their career development activities and to raise the career awareness of students seeking undergraduate and graduate physics degrees.

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Professional Development Guide

In today’s career environment, there are many types of employment opportunities and career choices available to scientists. Common to each of the many career choices are skills that are important to achieve success in a job. Typically, many of these skills are non-technical and are not part of a standard academic curriculum. Furthermore, each scientist is responsible for his or her own career development. Although many resources have been written to provide advice on this topic, the resources have been written at various times and exist in different publications, such as books, newsletters, magazines, and the Internet. The purpose of this guide is to assemble existing resources into one reference guide with a simple format.

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Postdoc Best Practices

APS has recently approached physics department chairs to ask them how they deal with the problems that many postdocs face. You can read excerpt from the letter to department chairs from APS Executive Officer Judy Franz, followed by some of the responses.

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Committee on Careers and Professional Development

2007 Committee on Careers and Professional DevelopmentThe APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development is a nine-member committee whose mission is to identify and address issues of careers and professional development for students, faculty, and physicists in the workforce. The Committee is also charged with advising the APS on these issues. Members of the 2007 Committee and APS staff met in March to discuss future career initiatives and programs. Left to right, top row: Ted W. Hodapp, Arlene Modeste Knowles, Eric Bittner, Gordon Thomas. Left to right, bottom row: Michael Johnson (Chair of CCPD), Mark Sincell, James Fedchak.

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Link to Physics Jobs

Go to APS Physics JobsYou can now link your society, department, unit, or group web site directly to the APS Career Center.  Help people quickly find or post jobs by inserting a short HTML snippet on to your web page. 

Choose one of several button styles and connect to Physics Jobs with a click of the button.  No cookies or tracking code are involved, just a straight path to careers in physics.

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